She was a fantastic singer who sang what is, to my mind, one of the most beautiful songs ever produced.
The fact that you didn't hear of her, if you are not a fan of pop music, is probably a good thing. It means she wasn't using publicists to constantly throw her name in our faces.
There are too many "stars" these days whose names I can't avoid knowing, yet I have no clue what they supposedly do to merit their "star" status. (Who is Christina Aguilera, really?)
Well said.
She’s the same generation as me, and, looking back at it, she was a world removed from the current generation of “stars”. She did not go out of her way to wear slutty outfits, embrace lefty politics, or make a spectacle of herself.
Okay, we could have done without the later Whitney and Bobby roadshow but aside from that...